God’s Fountain

‘In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.’—Zechariah 13:1‘There is a fountain filled with blood       Drawn from EMMANUAL’S veins;And sinners, plunged beneath that flood       Lose all their guilty stains.‘The dying thief rejoiced to see       That fountain in his day;And there have I, as vile as he,       Washed all my sins away.‘Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood       Shall never lose its pow’rTill all the ransomed church of God       Be saved, to sin no more.‘E’er since, by faith, I saw the stream       Thy flowing wounds supply:Redeeming love has been my theme,       And shall be till I die.‘But when this lisping, stammering tongue       Lies silent in the grave,Then in a nobler, sweeter song       I’ll sing thy power to save.’—William Cowper